As a wise man once said:Jesus forget you have bad luck with computers.
Just buy a new one and save money. I mean it.
So, I will. I will, for my birthday. I'll either get this laptop: (Toshiba Satellite with Celeron Processor)

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Or this one: (Toshiba Satellite AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual-Core Processor)

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The Story: Well, the blue one was on sale for 300$ so I was gonna get it... until today, back to 350$, but the black one went from 450$ to 400$, so should I spend the extra 50$?